The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development shared its final statistics on official development assistance in mid-December, providing a granular breakdown of how the largest bilateral donors spent on development and humanitarian causes across the globe.
Overall, Development Assistance Committee member countries cumulatively disbursed $214.5 billion on foreign assistance in 2024. This is a slight increase from an early estimate of $212.1 billion ODA, mainly driven by a $2.2 billion adjustment from the U.S.’s contributions, which went up to $65.5 billion from $63.3 billion.
Although the latest report precedes the historic aid cuts by the United States and the series of aid deprioritizations among other major donors, it already shows a 6% real-term cut from previous levels.